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By DEBORAH ANN TRIPOLDI tripoldi@montclairlocal.news Jessica Scheinbaum, 17, volunteers her time with Communities Promoting Animal Welfare NJ. Scheinbaum is a senior at Montclair High School and chose CPAW NJ for her internship in the school’s senior option program. She ...

The Montclair Police Department is partnering with Java Love at 49 Church St. and 244 Bellevue Ave. and Starbucks of Montclair, 572 Valley Road, to conduct a warm clothing drive. Residents are encouraged to drop off scarves, gloves, mittens, hats and gently used coats at the three locations until Dec...

By DEBORAH ANN TRIPOLDI tripoldi@montclairlocal.news Allison H. Sargent, 63, of Montclair, volunteers an average of three hours a week, when not in peak times, for the Salvation Army in Montclair. Sargent has been a volunteer for 15 years, and she is very involved with the holiday Kettle Campaign, which raises money providing toys for kids, coats for the homeless and food for the hungry... Read Mo

By DEBORAH ANN TRIPOLDI tripoldi@montclairlocal.news John Lytle, 64, of Montclair, volunteers an average of three hours a week on Wednesdays for Montclair Emergency Services for the Homeless. Lytle has been a MESH volunteer for seven and half years...

By DEBORAH ANN TRIPOLDI tripoldi@montclairlocal.news Robert L. Smith of Montclair is one of many of his congregation at Presbyterian Church of Upper Montclair who recently gathered and sent gifts to 25 children of incarcerated parents this past holiday season through Prison Fellowship Angel Tree Program... Read More ...

Religion spotlight: Universalist Unitarian Congregation at Montclair has a pair of married ministers.